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BYOB: Build Your Own Benchmark
AI benchmarks are saturating, getting harder to verify, and increasingly irrelevant to how most people use models. The replacements are weirder - and…
Mar 1
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Charlie Guo
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Humans Welcome to Observe
The OpenClaw/Clawdbot explainer: personal AI agents, security nightmares, and robot religion.
Jan 31
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Charlie Guo
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The AI Manager's Schedule
The new skills you need when your reports are LLMs.
Jan 16
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Charlie Guo
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The Field Guide to AI Slop
And what it's doing to human writing.
Oct 22, 2025
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Charlie Guo
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Revisiting "Intelligence Drift"
Why AI models still feel like they're getting dumber
Oct 15, 2025
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Charlie Guo
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From Goldfish to Elephants: AI Memory In Practice
How ChatGPT, Claude, and legions of startups are building assistants that never forget.
Sep 18, 2025
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Charlie Guo
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Idle Thoughts On Programming and AI
I've been thinking a lot lately about how coding is changing.
Jul 3, 2025
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Charlie Guo
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How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI
A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
Jun 4, 2025
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Charlie Guo
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SEO for AI: A look at Generative Engine Optimization
What happens when your customers come directly from ChatGPT?
May 21, 2025
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Charlie Guo
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AI's Missing Multiplayer Mode
Going from digital tools to digital teammates.
May 15, 2025
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Charlie Guo
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Why I'm Skeptical of AGI Timelines (And You Should Be Too)
AI 2027: Brilliant forecast or beautiful fiction?
Apr 30, 2025
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Charlie Guo
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The MCP Revolution
Why this open standard is becoming essential infrastructure for AI agents.
Apr 17, 2025
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Charlie Guo
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